Underwater lights

[SC35]

I think underwater lights should come with a free (fake) gold medallion and chest hair wig - of similar taste

All motorboat owners look something like this:

 

[Davy_S]

I do think you should have asked Bouba before you posted that.

 

[SC35]

To be clear, I don’t look anything like that because my hair fell out several decades ago.

 

[Davy_S]

Not a problem.

 

[stelican]

All motorboat owners look something like this:

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AH Marina Man.

 

[Wansworth]

Advice please do underwater lights give me increased bird pulling,asking for a friend

 

[Clash]

Advice please do underwater lights give me increased bird pulling,asking for a friend

Yeah, seagulls love 'em.

 

[Wansworth]

Yeah, seagulls love 'em.

 

[SC35]

Advice please do underwater lights give me increased bird pulling,asking for a friend

If you are around the age of SC35-Mini (approx 21 years old) and you have great hair and a six-pack, then a boat with underwater lights might tip the balance in your favour.

If you are 60+ with an eight-pack, it will most likely not help in that regard.

 

[Wansworth]

If you are around the age of SC35-Mini (approx 21 years old) and you have great hair and a six-pack, then a boat with underwater lights might tip the balance in your favour.

If you are 60+ with an eight-pack, it will most likely not help in that regard.

Thanks,at least I won’t be sitting around in the dark……hoping

 

[jfm]

Premium brand is Lumishore but there are lower spec cheaper ones available. Lumishore is a company created in uk and manufactures in uk, Wales in fact, and (as mentioned above) is in process of being acquired by Garmin. Random factoid: I bought the first 4 lights that they ever sold, in 2008. The founder had made them on his kitchen table

Pond lights will corrode and be destroyed by barnacles, and anyways won’t be bright enough- you need minimum a couple of thousand lumens and ideally 10,000 or more.

Plenty of choice in single or dual colours, or colour change.

As can be seen above, they have their fans and haters! I like them a lot and always spec them. Aside from swimming/fun/etc, they give significant safety benefits for getting on/off boat at night, whether tender or dock, and they are very useful for the helmsman (and for neighbouring boats, in the Med) when docking at night.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Agee with jfm ref the safety aspect, my previous boat (Bav S40) had them at the transom and it made boarding onto the platform in the dark feel secure. Current boat does not, am wondering about adding them but it’s not a top priority.

I also like the ambience created assuming the general environment is sympathetic to them.

 

[SC35]

To clarify, JFM does not look anything like the photo above in real life.

 

[Daydream believer]

If you are around the age of SC35-Mini (approx 21 years old) and you have great hair and a six-pack, then a boat with underwater lights might tip the balance in your favour.

If you are 60+ with an eight-pack, it will most likely not help in that regard.

But the reverse happens. If you are 85 plus & a bit frail & can afford them, then it will help a lot

 

[dunedin]

Agee with jfm ref the safety aspect, my previous boat (Bav S40) had them at the transom and it made boarding onto the platform in the dark feel secure. Current boat does not, am wondering about adding them but it’s not a top priority.

I also like the ambience created assuming the general environment is sympathetic to them.

Surely a light(s) on the stern platform, rather than underwater, would be more useful for safety when boarding

 

[jfm]

Nope- if you had tried it you would know. Deck lighting is important, but having the whole sea glowing and being able to see the bottom/the dock/the tidal flow/ anything that might fall in the water, adds a whole additional layer of safety above what deck lighting can do.
I do lots of night work and would never dock the boat without uw lights switched on.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Nope- if you had tried it you would know. Deck lighting is important, but having the whole sea glowing and being able to see the bottom/the dock/the tidal flow/ anything that might fall in the water, adds a whole additional layer of safety above what deck lighting can do.
I do lots of night work and would never dock the boat without uw lights switched on.

Exactamundo.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I might even have a picture. Bear with.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Bloody pic is too big.. you’d have thought after 20 years I could do this.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Apologies for low res quality…